Cooking and warming attachment for stoves.



J. J. CASE. COOKING AND WARMING ATTACHMENT FOR STOVES.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. I4, 1915- Patented July 10, 1917.-

JOSEPH J. CASE, OF TREN'TON, NEW JERSEY.

COOKING AND WARMING ATTACHMENT FOR STOVES.

Application filed August 14, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH J. CASE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Trenton, in the county of Mercer and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cooking and Warming Attachments for Stoves; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. a

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in cooking and warming attachments for stoves and the principal object of the invention is to provide a device which will enable several different articles to be cooked or warmed over a single burner.

Another object of the invention is to effect economy in the consumption of fuel by the use of a single burner for cooking or warming several different articles, and to provide avdevice on which a number of slices of bread may be toasted SllIlUlttL" neously, thereby insuring even and proper toasting.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a device which is rigidly reinforced to avoid breakage at the weakened point and also in which the reinforcing means forms a deflector by which the flame and heat from the burner is directed in various ways until the same passes out through the outlet openings provided therefor.

Vith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts which will be fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which:-

Figure 1 is a top plan view of this improved attachment.

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view on line 22 of Fig. 1, said view being on an enlarged scale, and

Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of Fig. 1.

Referring now to the drawings by characters of reference, the numeral 1 designates as an entirety the upper section of the device comprising a top 2, having formed thereon the side walls 3. These walls 3 are formed at themarginal edges of the top and extend at right angles thereto to form a shallow inverted pan. Formed in the top 2 are suitable openings 4 which are spaced from each other and from the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 10, 1917.

Serial No. 45,535.

side walls at an equal distance. As illustrated in the drawings there are 'four of these openings arranged concentrically around the central opening 5, which is considerably reduced and is designed to receive the fastening screw by means of which the reinforcing spider and deflecting plate mem ber is held in place.

The bottom section of the device is designated generally by the muneral 6 and comprises the bottom 7, having formed at its edges the upstanding walls 8. This bottom 7 together with the walls 8 forms a shallow pan which is slightly smaller than thesection 1 so that the walls 8 will extend into the section 1 between the walls 3' as clearly shown in Fig. A central opening 9 is formed in the bottom 7 and this opening is of a diameter greater than the diameter of the openings 4, so that the wall of the opening 9 partially intersects the walls of the openings 4 as shown in the drawings. Secured near the outer edges of the bottom 7 are suitable eyes 10 through which the rings 11 pass and these rings 11 form a means by which the device may be lifted.

In order to reinforce the portions 12 of the top 2 intermediate the openings l there is provided a suitable spider designated generally by the numeral 13, which comprises a conical central portion 14, the apex of which is directed downwardly and is in a plane with the face of the wall 7. This cone 14 forms a deflector for the flame from the burner over which the device is used and directs the heat from said flame upwardly and through the openings 4. Formed in tegrally with the base of the cone 14: are the radial arms 15, which extend at right angles and centrally of the portions 12 and these arms 15 terminate in the downwardly depending legs or supports 16 which engage the inner side of the wall 7 and it will thus be seen that the legs 16 and arms 15 form supports which will prevent the portions 12 from being bent inwardly and thereby pre vent the top 2 from sagging in the middle. In order to secure the spider 13 in place, the base of the cone 14 is arranged concentrically with the opening 5 and the base of the cone is provided concentrically with a screw threaded opening 17, into which the screw 18 is threaded and the head of this screw engages the walls of the opening 5 so as to firmly secure the spider in place in the upper section of the device.

that in use the deviceisassembled as-shown;

in Fig. 2 and placed so that the enlarged opening 9 rests directly over a .gas burner or the burner of an oil stove and it will be seen that the flame fromsaid burner and heat generated thereby will pass upwardly against the deflector 14 and" thence out through the openings t. In setting a cooking vesselover one of the openings, it will be seen that the one burner may be used to warm or cook one or several articles simultaneously as the heat will pass evenly out of any one of the openings 4:.

Whilein the foregoing there has been shown and described the preferred embodiment of this invention, it :is to be understood that such changes may be made in the combination and arrangement of parts as Will fall Within the spirit and scope of the appended claim. .7 a I hat is claimed is zy A device of the class described comprising a bottom pan, said pan including a bottom wall and side walls formed integrally with the edges of the bottom wall and arranged at right angles thereto, the bottom Wall being provided with a relatively large central opening, a top-pan including a top Wall,

side walls depending from the edges of the top Wall and-arranged at right angles thereto, said side Walls of the top pan adapted to engage the outer sides; of the side Walls of the bottom pan thus spacing the top and bottom walls of each pan at a relatively apart, said top walls being provided with a plurality of annularly disposed openings, a deflecting cone secured by its base to, the inner side of the top wall centrally thereoffa plurality oti-adial'ly extending arms formed integrally with the base of the cone and extending outwardly in opposite directions and engaging the under side of the top wall between each of the annularly arranged openings, the outer ends of said arms bent downwardly defining supporting means which engage the inner side of the bottom wall preventing thetop wall from sagging, andmeans secured to one side edge of the bottom wall. at diametrically opposite points to permit the pan to be lifted as and for the purpose specified.

spaced distance In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses. j

, JOSEPH J. CASE.

WVitnesses: v

E. PAUL CASE, WALTON M. WA'rsoN.

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= a Washington, I). G. 

